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(More on the Chachapoyas. I can't help but recall the story I read about King Solomon's mines possibly being at the headwaters of the Amazon River)

The Mysterious Petroglyphs of the Chachapoyans

There are two categories of Chachapoyan glyphs. There are basic pictoglyphs and there are glyphs that appear to be letters of some sort. The pictoglyphs were probably used as mnemonic devices to help the ancients recall stories, prophecies, and histories. The letter-like glyphs may have spelled out whole words, or, like ancient Hebrew, they may represent only part of the word and again act mainly as a mnemonic device. Unfortunately we do not have a Chachapoyan Rosetta stone to solve the mystery of these glyphs.

Some have attempted to crack the code by using Inca, Semitic, Celtic, and Universal symbology as their guide. One reader of Ancient American translates "The Wall" in issue 22 as follows: The "hare" figure is symbolic of a solar storm, which has occurred during various major historical events, such as the destruction of the Temple Mount and the Mayan civilization. The next solar "coronal mass ejection is scheduled for December 1999 through July 2000."

Using Carl G. Liungman's Dictionary of Symbols as my primary source, I came up with another, possible, meaning to that same portion of "The Wall" near San Pablo. Assuming general or universal interpretation, the symbols tell a story of a very significant person who came to the Chachapoyans and will come again (or has already come again). The sun or a comet is also tied into the story somehow.

Many Chachapoyan glyphs bear a striking resemblance to Aryan/Celtic and Semitic glyphs. However, many of these may be just coincidences. For example, if you told a person in Africa to tell a story with symbols and a person in South America to tell a similar story with symbols the two resulting products would probably bear similarities; even though the two people had no contact or knowledge of each other. Nevertheless, the similarities between Chachapoyan glyphs and some Inca, Celtic, early Christian, and other civilizations are uncanny and warrants further investigation.

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And Hiram sent in the navy his servants,
shipmen that had knowledge of the sea,
with the servants of Solomon.
And they came to Ophir,
and fetched from thence gold,
four hundred and twenty talents,
and brought it to king Solomon..

I Kings 9:27,28

Blam, wonder if you are familiar with America B.C. by Barry Fell? Pretty interesting and I think you would enjoy it. He's got the right credentials in the right places, and talks about the sort of stuff you are interested in.

AMAZON is showing it out of print, but it can't have been out of print that long. Worth looking for, IMHO.

http://www.amazon.com